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Latitude: 55.4512 / 55°27'4"N
Longitude: -4.638 / 4°38'16"W
OS Eastings: 233263
OS Northings: 620644
OS Grid: NS332206
Mapcode National: GBR 39.YNQ7
Mapcode Global: WH2PW.Q7MW
Plus Code: 9C7QF926+FQ
Entry Name: Carston House, 1 Victoria Park, Ayr
Listing Name: 1 Victoria Park, Carston House Including Ancillary Structure, Gatepiers and Boundary Wall
Listing Date: 10 January 1980
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 357237
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB21810
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: Ayr, 1 Victoria Park, Carston House
ID on this website: 200357237
Location: Ayr
County: South Ayrshire
Town: Ayr
Electoral Ward: Ayr West
Traditional County: Ayrshire
Tagged with: Villa
Circa 1848. 2-storey, 3-bay, asymmetrical-plan classical villa. Coursed sandstone. Base course; central dividing band course; 1st floor cill course; eaves course; cornice. Architraved window openings; aprons; pediments SW elevation over 1st floor windows, rise into roof.
SW (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: central Doric-columned entrance porch; balustraded parapet; timber door; letterbox fanlight; single window over. Flanking single windows at both floors to outer bays.
NW (RACECOURSE ROAD) ELEVATION: canted central bay; single window aligned above at 1st floor; regular fenestration to flanking bays.
Modern glazing. Slate roof; circular fluted stacks; circular cans; linking arcaded balustrade. Cast-iron rainwater goods.
INTERIOR: not seen 1999.
ANCILLARY STRUCTURE, GATEPIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL: rectangular-plan single storey and attic ancillary structure to SE of site; coursed sandstone; slate roof. Square-plan gatepiers to 2 entrances on Victoria Park; 2-leaf timber gates; ball-finials to gatepiers to ancillary structure; modern iron gates. Coped boundary wall enclosing site.
Marked on Ordnance Survey map, 1858 as Rose Villa. A good example of classically inspired villa architecture. Of particular note is the Doric columned entrance porch and arcaded balustrading linking the circular chimney stacks.
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